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MM 14273 :: seal

Object description: Stamp seal, naked boy sitting on a base. The underside of the base has incised spirals and some hieroglyphs.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

MM 14273

Serie nummer

Previous ID

G-A I:74

Object

Object, Swedish

Country - Findspot

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Material

Steatite, beige; Stone; Steatite

Material, Swedish

Steatit; Sten; Steatit, beige

Acquisition

Purchased from R.G. Gayer-Anderson

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Stamp seal, naked boy sitting on a base. The underside of the base has incised spirals and some hieroglyphs.

Period

Middle Kingdom - Second Intermediate Period (2061-c.1569 BC)

Period, Swedish

Mellersta riket - Andra intermediet (2061-ca.1569 f Kr)

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Comments

Former museum no. E 4273. Gayer-Anderson Section I:74. Search for additional pictures.

Cf Publications

Riefstahl, Ancient Egyptian Glass and Glazes in the Brooklyn Museum, New York 1968, 14

Hayes, W., The Scepter of Egypt. A background for the study of The Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom, New York 1953, 293 fig. 193

Glanville, JEA 17, 98ff

Wallis, Ceramic Art, 1898, pl. VIII

Publications

Martin, G.T., Some Private-Name and Stamp Seals in Stockholm, MedMusB 13 (1978), 4

PhotoNegNo

Dig. neg. MM14273a. Museum neg.3495-96-97, 3500

Reference - Published in

Martin, Geoffrey T. (1978) "Some Private-Name and Stamp-Seals in Stockholm" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 13 (1978) p. 3-5.

Source - http: books.google.se, libris.kb.se

Length / Längd

Height / Höjd

Width / Bredd

Thickness / Tjocklek

0,6 cmStatuettecm

Dimensions

Base:2.3x2 cm, T.0.6 cm, Statuette H.2.8 cm

Condition

Fragmentary. Head, right arm and right lower leg missing. Base damaged.

Original register

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